Just how far is a chef willing to go to win a cooking competition? Cutthroat Kitchen hands four chefs each $25,000 and the opportunity to spend that money on helping themselves or sabotaging their competitors. Ingredients will be thieved, utensils destroyed and valuable time on the clock lost when the chefs compete to cook delicious dishes while also having to outplot the competition. With Alton Brown as the devilish provocateur, nothing is out of bounds when money changes hands and we see just how far chefs will go to ensure they have the winning dish.
Some of the cooking sabatoges include having chefs attached to each other in some way or another, or having chefs wear costumes that restrict their movements.
As this is a cooking show, obviously kitchen knives are present. Depending on the sabatoge, chefs might have to use other cutting implements, such as scalpel blades.
This a reality TV cooking show. Chefs are interviewed on camera and the host and chefs talk directly to the camera numerous times each episode. The 4th wall doesn't really exist.